Current Members
Faculty
Joel Collier
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
joel.collier@duke.edu
Research Interests:
The design of biomaterials for a range of biomedical applications, with a focus on understanding and controlling adaptive immune responses.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Yaoying Wu
Postdoc
yw195@duke.edu
Research Interests:
Studying the immunological mechanism of supramolecular platforms
Designing self-assembling vaccine platforms for enhanced cancer immunotherapy
Developing protein delivery systems to amplify immune cell functions
Designing self-assembling vaccine platforms for enhanced cancer immunotherapy
Developing protein delivery systems to amplify immune cell functions
PhD Students
Jui-Lin Chen
MGM Doctoral Candidate
Research Interests:
Characterizing an HIV vaccine engineered with nanomaterials
Solving the mechanism of the enhancement of immune response elicited by that engineered HIV vaccine
Solving the mechanism of the enhancement of immune response elicited by that engineered HIV vaccine
Benjamin Cossette
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Engineering self-assembling peptide vaccines for the treatment of allergy and autoimmune diseases
Chelsea Fries
BME Doctoral Candidate, President of BME PhD Student Association, Duke Basketball Usher
chelsea.fries@duke.edu
Research Interests:
Designing helical peptides to control the lengthwise assembly of coiled-coil nanofibers
Incorporating viral proteins into nanofiber assemblies for vaccines against infectious diseases
Incorporating viral proteins into nanofiber assemblies for vaccines against infectious diseases
Kelly Hainline
BME Doctoral Candidate, 4 Time Intramural Champion
Research Interests:
Developing a complement-adjuvanted nanofiber vaccine
Engineering tunable 3D cell culture matrixes for prostate cancer organoid growth
Engineering tunable 3D cell culture matrixes for prostate cancer organoid growth
Sean Kelly
BME Doctoral Candidate, Laboratory Safety Coordinator
shk22@duke.edu
Research Interests:
Investigating how the surface properties of nanomaterials affect their interaction with the mucosal immune system
Lucas Shores
BME Doctoral Candidate, President of oSTEM Duke Chapter
lucas.shores@duke.edu
Research Interests:
Engineering a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of autoimmune disease
Investigating novel combinations of epitopes to enhance immune responses
Investigating novel combinations of epitopes to enhance immune responses
Nikki Votaw
BME Doctoral Candidate, Vice President of BMES Duke Chapter
nicole.votaw@duke.edu
Research Interests:
Engineering altered peptide ligands to shift the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory signals for the treatment of autoimmune diseases
Investigating how nanomaterials created in our lab interact with various aspects of the immune system
Investigating how nanomaterials created in our lab interact with various aspects of the immune system
